Roe Jan Rancher

Roe Jan Rancher

@olsenoid.bsky.social

Architect. Progressive. Anti-violence, anti-war, anti-MIC. Not ashamed of my Ivy League degree. Triggered by hypocrisy and censorship. I ❤️my family: human and 4-legged. 🏳️‍🌈

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Replying to @joshuajfriedman.com

I don’t think non-lawyers can appreciate how remarkable it is that the leading conservative intellectual voices of the 90s and 2000s - Judge Luttig, Judge Wilkinson, Walter Olson, Ben Ginsburg, etc. - are being this outspoken against a Republican president’s abuses. Huge kudos to all of them.

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As a School Board Trustee, I fought to ensure that the Pride Flag was raised at schools across Toronto. 🏳️‍🌈 Standing up for 2SLGBTQIA+ rights isn’t new for me. It’s something I have always done — and always will do.

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We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower

Phillip Anderson@phillipanderson.bsky.social

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

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Reddit is flooded with small businesses owners getting crushed by tariffs — devastated by the thought of raising prices, firing workers, or closing up shop entirely.

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Just saw Stephen Miller outside Tysons Mall getting into a car with his security Told him to his face that he's hurting American families. He didn't look up and his security told me I need to keep moving. I was with my son and holding a Lego bag. These men are weak, cruel cowards.

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Replying to @mattgertz.bsky.social

“With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991)

To me, an old white lady, this is the most alarming development to come out of the current administration. And there’s lots of competition for that superlative. What do we have here if we don’t have our freedom?

We have got to stand against tyranny. None of what is happening to Mahmoud Khalil is moral, ethical, or legal.

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This is extremely, extremely bad. Our legal system cannot function if the govt retaliates — and if courts allow it to retaliate — against lawyers who take matters the govt disfavors.

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social

NEW: President Trump moved Tuesday to punish a law firm for providing pro bono legal services to Jack Smith as he prepared to face a potential investigation from the Trump administration. He is stripping security clearnces and govt funding from the firm. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Anyway buffoonish hack Ed Martin probably won’t approve charges against right-wingers. So if you’re in DC, deciding what level of force to use against a Trumpist, consider they can kill or assault or rape you without being charged or with the promise of a pardon, and act accordingly.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

So many ways to lose a House majority

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

PSA: many younger boomers might not have been immunized against measles. There is a booster available.

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher@repfletcher.bsky.social

ICYMI: There's a measles outbreak happening right now in west Texas. Measles is one of the most contagious diseases in the world. President Trump's plans to cut thousands of jobs from the CDC—coupled with Secretary Kennedy's anti-vaccine agenda—is disastrous for us all.

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You aren’t seeing Black folks at protests because we know Trump will use us as an excuse to start violence—to justify martial law. Black folks, stay home. Be in peace. Our time will come. Everyone else, peacefully protest, but understand we won’t be human shields or targets! Don’t ask that of us.

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The official White House IG acct posted an “ASMR” reel of a deportation flight and I’m ruined rn. This is reckless & inhumane and underserving of any public office. No GOP member better dare talk to me about faith or Christianity. This isn’t Christ. Republicans don’t know Christ.

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Elon Musk posted these two tweets the same day, just hours apart. Don’t sugarcoat it — he’s not just a far-right authoritarian, he’s an outright fascist. Musk isn’t even trying to hide his true intentions at this point. STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR HIM.

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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

What could go wrong ?

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social

In a reckless move that could put countless Americans at risk, CDC cuts are expected to devastate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health EIS officers tasked with investigating disease outbreaks and health threats in the U.S. and abroad.

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Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.